The World's Shortest LNG Run  

Reuters reports that shipments of LNG from Qatar to Dubai will start in 2010 - a distance of around 300km.

Royal Dutch Shell and QatarGas plan to begin supplying liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Dubai in the peak demand summer period from 2010 after signing deals with the emirate, a Shell executive said on Sunday.

Shell aims to supply around 1.5 million tonnes of LNG a year, said Martin Trachsel, Shell's vice-president for gas and power in the Gulf. Some of the gas will come from Qatar, and some from elsewhere in Shell's portfolio, he told Reuters by telephone. ...

Dubai Supply Authority (Dusup), a government entity which owns the emirate's gas pipeline network and has the sole rights to supply gas users, is building a floating LNG regasification facility at Jebel Ali port, it said in a statement on Sunday. ...

The UAE sits on the world's fifth-largest gas reserves but has not developed them quickly enough to meet rising gas demand as its economy expands.